Boundless Immersive
Energy

High-stakes work, in a sector short of the people to do it. We help you build the competence it demands.

We help energy businesses onboard people fast across distributed sites, capture what their experts know before it retires, and let teams practise high-risk work safely. Oil and gas, renewables, and utilities.

Oil & gas
From rig to refinery
Renewables
Wind, solar, hydrogen
Utilities
Grid, water, networks
Offshore energy platform at dusk
Sector · Energy

Energy's biggest problem right now is not technology, it's people.

The generation that holds decades of operational knowledge is retiring, the sector is hiring and retraining at huge scale for the transition, and the work is spread across remote, hazardous, often newly-acquired sites. All of it depends on getting knowledge into people's heads, safely and fast, in places where there is no room to learn the hard way. That is the part we help with: capturing expertise, standardising onboarding, and letting people practise the dangerous things before they ever do them for real.

One in five

energy workers is expected to have left the workforce by 2030, taking their expertise with them.

PwC
400,000

people are needed to build the UK's net zero energy workforce, against around 270,000 in oil and gas today.

PwC, National Grid
Working with
Shell
Harbour Energy
How we help

Energy runs on expertise, and expertise is hard to build, easy to lose, and dangerous to learn on the job. Here is where we help, and the problem we are solving in each place.

Energy field worker reviewing onboarding on a tablet at a substation
Onboarding
01

Onboarding and induction at scale.

The challenge

Energy businesses grow by acquisition and run people across remote, distributed, high-risk sites. Every new starter, and every team that arrives through a deal, has to reach the same standard quickly, wherever they are, without a trainer flying out to meet them.

How we help

We build interactive, web-based inductions and onboarding that standardise the experience across every site and every acquisition. People arrive knowing the place, the risks, and the procedures, and they get there faster, which is exactly the problem we solved for Harbour Energy as they brought new operations into the business.

Expert energy engineer being captured on 360 video on a rig walkway
Knowledge capture
02

Capturing and transferring expert knowledge.

The challenge

Your most experienced people are retiring, and decades of hard-won judgement go with them. The feel for when a reading looks wrong, the fix that never made it into a manual, the lesson from an incident twenty years ago. That is the knowledge that keeps an operation safe, and it is walking out the door.

How we help

We capture what your experts know, on site and in their own words, and turn it into a knowledge base and AI-powered training your people can learn from, practise against, or simply ask a question of. It is the work we are doing with Shell, capturing one of their most experienced specialists before he retires, so his knowledge outlasts his last day.

Worker in a VR headset rehearsing an emergency shutdown procedure
High-risk training
03

High-risk and emergency procedure training.

The challenge

Rig crews, refinery operators, substation and turbine technicians face procedures and emergencies you cannot safely rehearse on live, high-consequence equipment. The cost of getting it wrong on the real thing is measured in lives and in downtime, so the most important training is the hardest to practise.

How we help

We build VR training that lets people practise high-risk procedures and emergency response inside a controlled, accurate replica, as often as they need, with no exposure and no disruption to live operations. Every attempt is scored, and the results pass to your LMS, so readiness is something you can prove rather than assume.

3D capture of a plant's pipework and infrastructure
Facility familiarisation
04

Plant and facility familiarisation.

The challenge

Getting someone confident and safe in a complex, hazardous facility usually means taking them to it, which is expensive when the site is remote and risky when the person is new. People too often meet the real environment for the first time on their first day in it.

How we help

We capture facilities in 3D and 360 and build virtual walkthroughs of the real plant, so people learn the layout, the hazards, and the procedures before they ever set foot on site. The same captured environment serves onboarding, training, and planning, built once and used across all of them.

Trainee in a VR headset learning a wind turbine procedure
Energy transition
05

Reskilling for the energy transition.

The challenge

As the sector shifts towards renewables, hydrogen, and nuclear, a large part of the existing workforce needs retraining onto unfamiliar assets and environments, and a new workforce needs building from scratch, at a pace classroom training cannot match.

How we help

We build immersive training that moves people onto new equipment and procedures at scale, letting them learn unfamiliar assets in a safe, repeatable environment before they work on them for real. It is how a workforce gets ready for what the sector is becoming, not just what it is today.

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